By Larry Fitzmaurice on June 6, 2011 at 5:15 p.m. EDT

By Tom Breihan and Amy Phillips on April 14, 2011 at 12:05 p.m. EDT

A myseterious video has appeared on the Bon Iverwebsite, featuring 50 seconds of wordless music and images of a painting of a landscape. Is it a teaser of the new Bon Iver album, allegedly due in June? We'll see.

In other news: Below, watch fan-made video of Volcano Choir (the experimental pop band that includes Bon Iver frontmanJustin Vernon and the members of the post-rock band Collections of Colonies of Bees) performing live in Milwaukee. They haven't done a whole lot of work together since releasing the BNM'ed 2009 album Unmap, possibly because everybody in the band is so damn busy with other projects. But this video finds them performing a new track called "Blue Ni Ni". It's a floaty, abstract song that is very much in the vein of the music on Unmap. Check out the video below, and thanks to John Meller for the tip.

By Larry Fitzmaurice on November 9, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. EST

Volcano Choir, the experimental-leaning group comprised of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and post-rock outfit Collections of Colonies of Bees, are in Japan right now, in the midst of playing their first-ever shows as a band. Their first show went down last night at Tokyo's Shibuya O-West ballroom, and Fader has good quality video of the band performing Unmap standout "Island, IS", which you can check out below. We're digging Vernon's laid-back sartorial style.

Now NPR has a stream of "Youlogy", another new joint from the band. This one pushes Vernon's unmistakable pained falsetto even further out into the unknown, surrounding it with ghostly backing vocals, a needling feedback drone, and pretty much nothing else. Check it out here.

"Youlogy" will appear on Volcano Choir's debut album Unmap, which Jagjaguwar will release on September 22 (September 21 in the UK).

By Ryan Dombal on June 24, 2009 at 11:20 a.m. EDT

Back in May, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon told us about Volcano Choir, his new project with fellow ethereal Wisconsinites Collections of Colonies of Bees. "We started collaborating three years ago and just this year we started to realize we had nine or 10 tracks almost done," he said. "I sing on it, but there aren't a lot of lyrics-- it's definitely more on the experimental side of things."

Now we have all the official info: Volcano Choir's debut LP, Unmap, is out September 22 (Sept. 21 in the UK) via Jagjaguwar.

Meanwhile, Bon Iver are busy working on their long-playing follow-up to For Emma, Forever Ago in between summer gigs, including a stop at Glastonbury this weekend. Volcano Choir tracklist and Bon Iver dates below: